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Council discusses updating fee schedule and recovering costs for zoning hearings, recreation and permit reviews
Summary
Council reviewed a staff spreadsheet showing residential fee increases tied to CPI and discussed a draft resolution to adjust multiple municipal fees, including zoning hearing and recreation charges, to recover borough costs; staff and council expect to bring a resolution to a near-term meeting for formal action.
Franklin Park Borough Council discussed proposed updates to the municipal fee schedule, including residential fee adjustments tied to consumer-price measures and proposals to better recover the borough—osts for zoning hearing board processes.
Why it matters: multiple council members said current application fees do not recover borough costs for solicitor time, hearing boards and staff review. Increasing those fees would shift more of the administrative cost of land-use and permitting…
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